TO)pot
Festival of radical soundwalks
Beyond Listening 2025
Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies Symposium
23–27 Sept 2025 | Slovenia
Cukrarna Gallery, Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, City Museum of Ljubljana and public spaces
* Registration is required for some festival and symposium activities.
The theme of this year’s festival TO)pot with headline Walking-with-Changes, brings a special edition shaped by inspiring partnerships in co-production with Cukrarna. Alongside our well-loved program, the festival also features the CENSE network symposium Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with-Changes, highlighted by a full-day Symposium in the Field that will take us to the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park.
The project Sejalke explores how festivals like TO)pot can serve as models of sustainable organization, where art functions as a means of understanding environmental challenges and promoting sustainable practices.
All events are free of charge. We kindly welcome your donations at the event venues.
TO)pot festival of radical soundwalks
Festival co-creators: Piotr Armianovski, Jaka Bombač, Nikola Drole, Lina Eržen, Anna Friz, Tadej Grum, Tetiana Khoroshun, Anna Khvyl, Neža Knez, Felisa Ko, Zala Kramperšek, Maša Milčinski, Eva Mulej Vrabič (Oka), Boštjan Perovšek, Ajda Pirtovšek, Martyna Poznanska, Brane Zorman
Production: Brane Zorman, Irena Pivka, Matej Tomažin, Karmen Ponikvar, Alja Petric
Coordination for Cukrarna: Alenka Trebušak
Technical support: Brane Zorman and the Cona support team, Martin Lovšin and Cukrarna technical team
Public relations: Matej Tomažin (Cona), Mojca Podlesek (Cukrarna)
Design of the festival’s visual identity: Matej Tomažin
Translation into English and Slovenian and proofreading: Melita Silič and Petra Berlot Kužner
English language editing and proofreading: Jana Renée Wilcoxen
Festival partners: Ljubljana City Gallery
Soundwalks partners: Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, University of Ljubljana, National Institute of Biology, Krater Creative Laboratory, Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy and the Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO)
Festival coproduction: Cukrarna
Festival produced and organised by: Cona, for the Steklenik Gallery.
Beyond Listening 2025 CENSE Symposium
Symposium co-creators: Sara Anjo, Maria Balabas, Maja Bjelica, Pia Brezavšček, Cha Caillat, Ádám Darázs, Kristine Diekman, George Edmondson, Mary Edwards, Arthur Enguehard, Darko Fritz, John Grzinich, Csaba Hajnóczy, Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip), Bálint János Kiss, Eric Leonardson, Hugo Lioret, Kevin Logan, Juan José López Díez, Ben Pagac, Ivan Penov, Carina Pesch, Karmen Ponikvar, Saška Rakef, Mersid Ramičević, Ján Solčáni, Rok Šturm, Mike Thompson, Madina Tlostanova, Georgios Varoutsos, Eva Vozárová, Joanna Patrycja Wyrwa
Symposium’s programme board scientific committee: Elena Biserna, Jacek Smolicki, Maja Bjelica
Symposium’s programme board organising committee: Irena Pivka, Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip), Maja Bjelica
Symposium’s advisory board: Csaba Hajnóczy, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Brane Zorman, Petra Kapš
The CENSE Symposium is produced by Cona Institute, co-organised by the Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and facilitated by the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE).
Symposium in the Field: Walking and Listening in the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, the whole-day experiential happening of the symposium is supported and implemented by the company SOLINE, d.o.o. / the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, Maritime Museum “Sergej Mašera” Piran and Muzofil Association.
The Symposium in the Field is also prepared within the framework of the basic research project “Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation: Salt-Making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom,” which is being implemented at the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Center Koper (ZRS Koper), and is financed by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS J6-50196).
Sejalke_ Green Collaborations of the TO)pot festival
The Sejalke project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia from the Climate Change Fund of the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Energy of the Republic of Slovenia. Illustration for the Sejalke project by Jovana Djukić.
